The Hyksos - Foreign Kings in Ancient Egypt: Interview with Dr. Anna-Latifa Mourad

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ancient Egypt didn’t exist in isolation from the world around it. Trade goods, ideas, and especially people flowed in and out over the millennia, but never more so than during the Second Intermediate Period, when a foreign dynasty of kings known as the Hyksos ruled much of Egypt. But were the Hyksos really the invading marauders the Egyptians portrayed them as? I talked to Dr. Anna-Latifa Mourad of Macquarie University to get the cutting-edge story of who the Hyksos really were.

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0:00.0	Before we get started, a reminder that when you join Wondery Plus, you can listen to Tides
0:09.7	of History one week early and add free in the Wondery app.
0:14.1	Hi everybody, from Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:21.7	Thanks for joining me.
0:22.8	When we think of the distant past, Ancient Egypt is one of the first societies to come
0:26.4	to mind.
0:27.4	In the past, the Egypt of the New Kingdom was pretty different than that of the early
0:44.8	Dynastic period, more than a thousand years before.
1:12.1	Today's guest can tell us a great deal about the Hexos because she literally wrote the
1:15.6	books.
1:16.6	First entitled The Rise of the Hexos.
1:18.8	The second, the Enigma of the Hexos, volume two, transforming Egypt into the New Kingdom,
1:23.1	the impact of the Hexos and Egyptian near Eastern relations on their origins and relationship
1:28.2	with Egypt.
1:29.2	Dr. Anil Atifa Murad is a postdoctoral fellow at McCory University in Sydney where she's
1:33.5	currently working on networks of contact and exchange between Egypt and the Near East
1:37.8	and the Second Millennium BC.
1:40.0	As I mentioned, she's the author of Rise of the Hexos and the Enigma of the Hexos along
1:44.0	with a whole bunch of book chapters and scholarly articles.
1:47.4	Dr. Murad, thank you so much for joining me today.
1:50.2	It's a pleasure to chat with you, Patrick.
1:53.0	So let's start at the beginning.
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